Mom is two weeks behind :(

May 18, 2015

At Concilio last week, we made a mission goal to have 106 baptisms before the 8 of July. And we decided that all the Zone Leaders would make Zone Baptism Plans for every zone.


At the Conference 2 weeks ago, on of the General Authorities explained that a golfer has 14 clubs in his bag and he knows how to use all of them and that´s what makes him a good golfer. We, as missionaries, must also use all of our ¨clubs¨ and important things we are supposed to do from Preach My Gospel if we want to have success.


So, Elder Landinez and I decided that for part of our plan, every week until July 8th, we are gonna add 2 Clubs to our golf bag. Every week we are gonna focus on 2 different Missionary Attributes and keep adding clubs to the bag until we have 14 :).


So we sent one of these pictures to the Zone with our Plan :) haha. 

If you guys are down, you can join me in my Doctrine and Covenants challenge :).


Last Friday I hit my 138 days left mark. So I started D&C. I´m reading a section every day until I get home. You guys will be 3 days behind section 2 is only like 3 verses long so it´s okay :)


Let me know if you are in! :) haha

MAY 25, 2015

Well I found out that I¨m getting transferred on Wednesday. I´m going to be going to a place called Jeréz de la Frontera. It´s under Sevilla but a little close to the coast. My new companion will be Elder Gonzalez. He´s from Chile. I know him and he´s a really good missionary! Elder Letts was companions with him and loved him so I´m really excited. I have good friends over in that zone and ever Tri-Zone conference I will go to Sevilla and see Elder Letts and Elder Cowley so that will be great :) And I´ll probably be giving my final testimony in Sevilla. That will be so cool. To give my first and last testimony in Sevilla :).


I´m gonna miss Elder Adcock a lot. He has been such an awesome companion. I´ve never loved a companion so much. We have done so much together and have helped each other out a ton. I hope he keeps driving the Murcia elders down to Málaga for Concilio so I can see him a few more times :). It will definitely be the hardest goodbye with a companion to say goodbye to him.


But I am excited for what´s coming and change is good because change helps you change. It´s a lot easier to change the way you do the work and improve immediately when you have a change of area or companions. So I´m ready for what´s coming. I spent a while this week figuring out my Vision for my last area and setting plans and a lot of small goals to fulfill my plans and vision. I want to leave everything on the altar of sacrifice in my last area!


Well, I will send pictures of the new area and companions next week! :) Until then, I hope everything goes well for you guys. Have a great week and find a good quote from Conference :)


Love you guys.




Elder Marchant

Last Skype call home!!!

Everything is just going crazy lately! haha. Our schedule is out of control. Last week the whole mission went to Sevilla for 2 days to meet with Elder Dyches from the 70 and Elder Allen from the missionary department. They talked about a lot of really neat things. It was a great conference! And super cool to have the whole mission together! I didn´t even get to talk to everyone I wanted to there were so many people there.


So having that in the middle of the week was rough. And then Monday we went to Málaga for Concilio, came home yesterday, have weekly planning today, interviews with Presidenttomorrow, and Zone Meeting on Friday. It´s all super stressful! haha. But at least we aren´t bored :).


Skype was good on Sunday. It´s weird to think that it was my last time. The next time I see you guys will be in person! That´s the weirdest part for me. But I still have time :). In 2 weeks I will go to my last area. I have no idea where it will be. But I will be happy with whatever He needs me to do.


There really isn´t much else to talk about. I don´t think haha. So much has happened and is about to happen that I can´t even concentrate on my email :) haha. So for today I will leave you guys with that.


Have a great week everyone! :) I will send a better email next week! :)


Invite someone to listen to the missionaries this week! :) ( Does anyone even ever do my assignments? haha)


Love you guys!


Elder Marchant

Best week of the mission ever!!!

This week was the best week of the mission I have ever had.


It was the week of Consecration in the mission. We were completely consecrated! Didn´t even sing any songs around the piso that weren´t hymns! haha. This month in the mission has been month of the Savior. We have been working all month on Christlike Attributes and ended the month with the week of Consecration.


We were tested all week. It was a really hard week. We had really big goals to find new investigators and set baptismal dates as well. So Elder Adcock and I were trying hard to do that all week long and the first few days were really rough. We couldn´t get in to almost anything and I had to go do exchanges twice and leave Elder Adcock in our area.


Every single Attribute of Christ was tested this week. It was amazing because every night I would kneel down to pray and the Lord showed me what He did during the day to help me learn those attributes: Faith, Diligence, Hope, Patience, Charity, Obedience, Virtue, Humility, and Knowledge. I saw every day how He helped me learn and how He tested me with each one.


As the week went on we could feel our faith getting stronger and we were working harder and being more patient, HUGE miracles started happening. We were guided to prepared people and they were guided to us. We even had a girl walk up to us in the street and give us her number and her address because, she said, ¨I´m looking for something. I want to join your church.¨ We found an amazing family from Ukraine that we were miraculously guided to. Miracle after miracle kept happening. We were so blessed.


And to end it all, we baptized yesterday. A young man named Kevin that we have been working with since I´ve been here. We had a lesson with him on Wednesday and we felt like we just needed to go over the baptismal questions. He knew and understood them all. We said ¨Can´t you see how ready you are?¨ and he told us that he was ready, and that he wanted to be baptized on Sunday. It was the most amazing feeling! We worked hard the rest of the week to get his interview done and everything ready, all while continuing to find to reach the high goals that we had set as a mission.


His baptism yesterday was the most amazing moment ever. Elder Adcock, me, Kevin, his brother, and his 2 best friends in the church were all sitting on the front row and those guys were all just crying the whole time. The talk and the testimonies were PERFECT and the best part of all was that when it was all over, everyone stood up so reverently and got in a line to give him a hug. Everyone was crying. He has so many friends in the church and it was such a special day for so many people.


I got home last night and sat down and felt like I had served a whole mission in just one week :). With all the things I learned, miracles I saw, and energy I didn´t have haha :). I think that´s almost what it feels like when you end the mission. So tired, and happy, and accomplished, and humble.


A week that I will never forget, and one that has changed my mission and my life. I will write down ALL the details in my journal so that I don´t ever forget it :).


Love all you guys! :) I don´t have a lot of time today, otherwise I would write more. :) Have a great week!


Elder Marchant